Staff Software Engineer

• →10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including architecting complex, end-to-end platform solutions across multiple technology domains

• →Strong command of object-oriented programming and design patterns, including domain-driven design (DDD), event-driven architecture, and microservices

• →Proficiency in at least one backend language - Java, C#, or Python

• →Proven full-stack experience end-to-end, designing and building RESTful APIs from the data layer through to the services that consume them

• →Hands-on experience building AI-powered features (LLMs, AI agents) and using AI coding tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor responsibly to accelerate your own development work

• →Deep, hands-on experience with cloud-native architecture on Azure and/or AWS

• →Track record of simplifying how other engineers work and writing clear, accessible documentation for what you build

• →Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical trade-offs to both engineers and business stakeholders

• Front-end experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and a modern framework (React or Angular) for building user-facing web applications

• Experience with MCP-based tooling or building agentic AI systems that other engineering teams consume

• Hands-on experience with agent harness engineering and spec-driven development, and a habit of tracking emerging AI coding techniques and sharing what works with the team

• Familiarity with additional API paradigms beyond REST, such as GraphQL or gRPC

• Cloud certifications (Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent)

• Strategic Thinking: Sees around corners on architecture decisions and plans for scale before it's required.

• Thought Leadership: Shapes how other engineers think about platform architecture, not just how they build it.

• AI Fluency: Uses AI coding tools with judgment, knows where they accelerate work and where they add risk ,and helps the team build the same skill.

• Mentorship: Invests real time growing other engineers' skills and judgment, not just reviewing their work.

• Developer Experience Focus: Treats other engineers as customers — simplifies their workflows and writes documentation clear enough that they rarely need to ask.

• Ownership & Drive: Drives platform-wide initiatives to completion across team boundaries.

• Collaboration: Partners across pillars to align platform direction with what teams actually need.

• Communication: Translates deep technical trade-offs into decisions stakeholders can act on.

This position does not provide visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements.  We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

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